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When an innocent young lady becomes unwittingly stranded in a small town, she senses imminent danger, and soon learns of the town's wretched history: it was founded by a bloodthirsty, satanic preacher with a nasty taste for making human sacrifices. The strange townspeople are both heirs to this legacy and accomplices to it - to such a degree that the newcomer must flee in terror from the clutches of the hamlet's residents and the pursuit of a possessed, animate scarecrow who wants her dead.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:DVD|Amazon Verified Purchase
Plot. A girl gets stranded in a a town little knowing of its history. Human sacrifice, mad townsfolk and a living killing scarecrow are just 3 of her problems.
I thought this was a pretty good horror with deaths early on then a nice exposition from the crazy people. Then more weirdness and what's gonna happen next.
Nicely acted and very good camera work. It was very clear in the night scenes which most of the film is at. Some good twists too. Not too much blood and no gore but wasn't really necessary in this tale, but a fair bit of violence towards the end. I enjoyed it.
Extras nil just some trailers. USA Release Region 1.
I thought this was a pretty good horror with deaths early on then a nice exposition from the crazy people. Then more weirdness and what's gonna happen next.
Nicely acted and very good camera work. It was very clear in the night scenes which most of the film is at. Some good twists too. Not too much blood and no gore but wasn't really necessary in this tale, but a fair bit of violence towards the end. I enjoyed it.
Extras nil just some trailers. USA Release Region 1.
0 of 1 people found the following review helpful
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Cornfields really are the new hallowed ground (sorry) for fertile new horror. Schools, mental homes, disused unending trucker highways, disowned towns full of cannibals and forests full of the same, all done too often and often moreso with most amentable results. But every since those pesky 'Children Of The Corn' sliced through enormous fields of corn, it seems the one place where a ready imagination plus generous shocks, atmosphere and gore forever grow ripe. This film is pretty excellent, and while I wouldn't place it above the more recent After Dark Original masterpiece 'Husk' nor the 1988 diamond of terror 'Scarecrows' (check both out), it doesn't come too far a season behind. Look out too for welcome appearances by TV and 80s horror movie stalwart Ethan Phillips ('Critters', the Fox Network 'Werewolf' series) as a dodgy priest, plus also Brian McNamara as the sheriff, and previous star of 'Arachnophobia' and regular of many popular TV series like 'NYPD Blue', 'Star Trek', 'The O.C' among others.)
Jaimie Alexander acquits herself with a stong performance as the stranded girl in a small town. She spies a little girl at the petrol station where her car breaks down, a little girl she is destined to meet later, after first being set upon by a blonde reporter, who is herself in town to investigate legends of the townspeople nailing others to crosses to ensure good yearly crop yields. It soon transpires that Alexander's presence was impending to re-raise the long dead preacher, immoblised on a cross in the fields for his crimes. But his followers still exist...and they're expecting him back very soon.
As with any Scarecrow horror I've seen, the atmosphere seeps in from the start, and, like many crop-based horrors, the sunny day means no respite at all from the terror, in direct contrast to most horror films having to be set at night. The billowing fields of corn-rows are as eerie and intimdating as ever, shaking in the breeze, casting shadows all around, and hiding...who knows what. Unsurprisingly the performances are strong, the right side of nutty for the crank-jobs, and easily lends weight a premise that dares to be different, even if won't demand distributor support for putting bums of seats in the current wave of torture porn, bored hoodies and twist-enders.
As day turns to night, the horrific situation impending is more pronounced, and the tension buttons are all cranked up. I should say no more, but see it as another refreshing field of real horror that should be piling into cinemas in the wake of the stuff that chugs up mulitplexes today. The ending itself, such a bugbear in modern horror aswell, is pleasingly apt after such an ordeal. This is one crop ripe for picking, people.
Jaimie Alexander acquits herself with a stong performance as the stranded girl in a small town. She spies a little girl at the petrol station where her car breaks down, a little girl she is destined to meet later, after first being set upon by a blonde reporter, who is herself in town to investigate legends of the townspeople nailing others to crosses to ensure good yearly crop yields. It soon transpires that Alexander's presence was impending to re-raise the long dead preacher, immoblised on a cross in the fields for his crimes. But his followers still exist...and they're expecting him back very soon.
As with any Scarecrow horror I've seen, the atmosphere seeps in from the start, and, like many crop-based horrors, the sunny day means no respite at all from the terror, in direct contrast to most horror films having to be set at night. The billowing fields of corn-rows are as eerie and intimdating as ever, shaking in the breeze, casting shadows all around, and hiding...who knows what. Unsurprisingly the performances are strong, the right side of nutty for the crank-jobs, and easily lends weight a premise that dares to be different, even if won't demand distributor support for putting bums of seats in the current wave of torture porn, bored hoodies and twist-enders.
As day turns to night, the horrific situation impending is more pronounced, and the tension buttons are all cranked up. I should say no more, but see it as another refreshing field of real horror that should be piling into cinemas in the wake of the stuff that chugs up mulitplexes today. The ending itself, such a bugbear in modern horror aswell, is pleasingly apt after such an ordeal. This is one crop ripe for picking, people.
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4 of 5 people found the following review helpful
SILLY BUT FUN
17 Oct 2007
Format:DVD
HALLOWED GROUND reminded me of some of those horror films from the seventies where a young girl must free herself from religious fanatics and the spirit of a crazed minister who is inhabiting a scarecrow. Jaime Alexander (REST STOP) plays Liz, a young girl just out of a failed relationship whose car breaks down in a town called Hope. She pairs up with reporter Hudson Leick who tells her the town's sinister history and invites her to go to the farm of the evil minister; that's when the horror begins.
The movie's pacing is quite quick and it has an ominous air to it. Not a classic, but far above many of the SAW IMITATIONS and torture flicks glutting the market.
The movie's pacing is quite quick and it has an ominous air to it. Not a classic, but far above many of the SAW IMITATIONS and torture flicks glutting the market.
8 of 11 people found the following review helpful
Not the worst direct-to-DVD horror available... but is that really saying much?!
21 Oct 2007
Format:DVD
Hallowed Ground is one of those direct-to-DVD releases that you pick up off the rack at your local movie chain and instantly your gut tells you to pass on it... but against your better judgement you decide to take a chance on it, "hey, maybe it'll even suprise me" you wonder aloud (to wich you may or may not recieve some odd looks). Well, unfortunately this one gives you exactly what you expected. This is the story of the town known as Hope (groan) and the evil preacher that sacrificed "sinners" by hanging them as living scarecrows to keep the crops healthy. Eventually the neighboring town finds out and hangs him as a scarecrow... then burns him alive, his final words being "I'll be back" or something to that effect. Fast forward to the present as our female lead (Jaime Alexander who's solid throughout, although her running could be considerably more convincing) gets broken down in Hope a 100 years after the aforementioned events and just in time for the ancient evil to be resurrected. The plot is pretty busy here and they seem to jam plenty of ideas together (probably too many), which results in odd spots of exposition with characters ranting important plot threads to keep us in the loop. The movie also commits the cardianl sin of attempting CGI effects without the budget to get away with it (you'll see what I mean within the first 5 minutes and especially in the finale). The movie isn't a complete waste of time and provides a few decent moments but overall I'd recommend the recently exhumed 1980's film Scarecrows for better killer-on-a-stick entertainment.
7 of 10 people found the following review helpful
Stupid fun.
29 Jan 2008
Format:DVD
Hallowed Ground (David Benullo, 2007)
I must be going soft in my old age. I watched two SFCOMs this weekend, and (to some extent, mind you-- I didn't say I was going senile) I enjoyed both. Hallowed Ground doesn't have nearly the potential that Something Beneath did, but it delivered what was expected, and despite the godawful low-budget special effects, it was a pretty fun little movie.
The plot: Liz Chambers (Kyle XY's Jaimie Alexander), on the run from something traumatic in her past (we find out what later in the film), has her car mysteriously break down near the town of Hope, a nasty little piece of rural America where, we find out in the opening scene, a psychotic preacher spent many years crucifying folks as live sacrifices to ensure a good harvest back in the nineteenth century. In this extremely odd town, Liz meets plucky reporter Sarah (Chill Factor's Hudson Leick), who's doing a story on the preacher for a tabloid, and after some prodding, Liz decides to tag along to the preacher's farm with Sarah for a photo shoot. The two of them build a scarecrow and erect it on the site where the preacher is buried. Complications ensue when the spirit of the preacher possesses the scarecrow so he can be reborn. (The ins and outs of this process are a little complex.) The only person in town Liz can find to help her out is the sheriff (I Know Who Killed Me's Brian McNamara), who's also an outsider. All the rest of the townsfolk, well, they're kinda weird.
Benullo's first feature film is derivative, silly, and low-budget, but he wasn't really aiming for deathless cinema here. If you enjoy mindless monster movies, this should be right up your alley; it's fast-paced, fun, not that horribly acted, and is actually shot well enough that you can see what's going on the entire time ("too dark to see" has been an increasingly annoying feature of low-budget horror flicks in the past decade or so). Yeah, you've seen it before, but so what? There are seven basic plots, every movie uses one of 'em. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. ***
I must be going soft in my old age. I watched two SFCOMs this weekend, and (to some extent, mind you-- I didn't say I was going senile) I enjoyed both. Hallowed Ground doesn't have nearly the potential that Something Beneath did, but it delivered what was expected, and despite the godawful low-budget special effects, it was a pretty fun little movie.
The plot: Liz Chambers (Kyle XY's Jaimie Alexander), on the run from something traumatic in her past (we find out what later in the film), has her car mysteriously break down near the town of Hope, a nasty little piece of rural America where, we find out in the opening scene, a psychotic preacher spent many years crucifying folks as live sacrifices to ensure a good harvest back in the nineteenth century. In this extremely odd town, Liz meets plucky reporter Sarah (Chill Factor's Hudson Leick), who's doing a story on the preacher for a tabloid, and after some prodding, Liz decides to tag along to the preacher's farm with Sarah for a photo shoot. The two of them build a scarecrow and erect it on the site where the preacher is buried. Complications ensue when the spirit of the preacher possesses the scarecrow so he can be reborn. (The ins and outs of this process are a little complex.) The only person in town Liz can find to help her out is the sheriff (I Know Who Killed Me's Brian McNamara), who's also an outsider. All the rest of the townsfolk, well, they're kinda weird.
Benullo's first feature film is derivative, silly, and low-budget, but he wasn't really aiming for deathless cinema here. If you enjoy mindless monster movies, this should be right up your alley; it's fast-paced, fun, not that horribly acted, and is actually shot well enough that you can see what's going on the entire time ("too dark to see" has been an increasingly annoying feature of low-budget horror flicks in the past decade or so). Yeah, you've seen it before, but so what? There are seven basic plots, every movie uses one of 'em. Just sit back and enjoy the ride. ***
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